I’m not responsible for inviting Trump to royal wedding, says May

British Prime Minister Theresa May said she was “not responsible” for inviting Donald Trump to the royal wedding of Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markl,e when asked whether the U.S. president should attend.

“I’m not responsible for invitations to the royal wedding,” May told lawmakers in the British parliament on Wednesday, adding that an invitation for Trump to come to the U.K. on a state visit had been extended.

“We have a special and enduring relationship with the United States,” the prime minister also said.

May’s statements come after Trump announced in a tweet last week that he would cancel a planned state visit to the U.K. to open a new American embassy, as he considered it a “bad deal” made under former U.S. President Barack Obama’s leadership. However, the deal to establish a new embassy in London had been inked under Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush.

The British prime minister was the first foreign leader to visit Trump when he took over the Oval Office last January. Trump has not visited the U.K. since becoming president.

There have been several calls for the U.K. to rescind the invitation for Trump to visit after he retweeted anti-Muslim videos in November originally posted by the far-right group Britain First. May criticized the retweets as “wrong,” and Trump tweeted that May shouldn’t “focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom.”

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edel

We can repudiate a President as a person but he represents almost 400 million still. I find normal an invitation to global leaders including the US, even more being Miss Markle from the US .

Said that, it is noticeable a certain desperation by UK on warming up to the US. It is true that Trump’s presidency won’t last forever but UK better don’t expect much form the US. The US, with Trump or without, will take advance of the UK’s desperation and will impose conditions that will be hard to swallow to UK, let’s no mention that US it is not a complementary economy as the EU was to UK; the US competes mostly in the same area as UK does; technology and services. UK

Posted on 1/17/18 | 4:27 PM CET

Alex T

The inconsequential stuff that Politico often writes about on here is worthy of Der Spiegel.

Posted on 1/17/18 | 4:28 PM CET

Anthony Chambers

@edel: Harry is not the future or current head of state of the UK. Who he invites to his wedding is his business, not a matter of state.

Posted on 1/17/18 | 4:39 PM CET

David

@edel

You should have stopped after the first sentence. Is it compulsory in the EU to add all the other sh|t?

Posted on 1/17/18 | 4:42 PM CET

Paulo

Anthony Chambers

I remember the grief I went through when I got married and didn’t want to invite certain people. I feel your pain Harry.

Posted on 1/17/18 | 4:44 PM CET

Anthony Chambers

You probably will be shocked to know that Angela Merkle will also not be on the invite list.

Posted on 1/17/18 | 4:46 PM CET

yospit64

The British should ban this so-called “president” from setting foot in their country. The visit of this vulgar sexual predator, compulsive liar, nationalist, isolationist, white supremacist thug will greatly damage the British values and traditions. We Americans inflicted great damage on our nation by voting for this despicable character and soon we will start paying for our mistakes. Hopefully, this will become a lesson to Europe for the need to vote for leaders with sanity in mind.

Posted on 1/17/18 | 5:02 PM CET

edel

oh @Anthony Chambers, you know so little. The royal family is the best asset UK has in the US. That wedding will be watched not only by much more millions here in the US than in the UK, but also in percent points.

As much as one can despise monarchies, once you have it maximize its diplomatic power.

Posted on 1/17/18 | 5:25 PM CET

edel

@David, that other part yes, it is important. It is the reason why May is so much trying to please Trump to even embarrass herself and UK in the process. However just letting you know the US cares less what a PM does… any negotiation with any government here in the US will be harsh so no need to drag herself trying to please us.

Posted on 1/17/18 | 5:37 PM CET

gf

yospit64: You are an utter disgrace to education and reason as You stated everything the media have spewed yet you like the accusers have not a shred of proof or that he has he actually demonstrated a single provable trait that you allude him too.
Thus far, apart from stupid tweets, it is your own opposition party and their media mates that have kept up the anti-Trump charade whilst the rest of the country are enjoying renewed hope and blossoming prosperity.
The locker room tape, grab them blah blah, is a similar conversation had by most men and women at some time in their life, so sexual predator etc., is only based on conjecture and pay for claim accusations.
White supremacist… what by being morally and ethically correct in, after looking at the real evidence, that BOTH sides where too blame, unless you want him to lie, which the opposition would make a meal of later, are indeed a true racist yourself and think it right that Obama fuelled division through his race hate and bait campaign.
As for not coming to the UK, most of us decent well informed people would like him to come and have the state honours bestowed, after all we have done that to proven reprehensible leaders, so why not to someone who is the target of a hate campaign based on lies.
Also it is those who don’t really know why they protest and those with an agenda to garner votes from the liberals and gender fluid delusional idiots, that get the media time to spout their lies that say we don’t want him here.

Please, stop disgracing your country, as we decent Brits wish our own political self serving elites would stop disgracing and bringing down ours.

Posted on 1/17/18 | 8:13 PM CET

BillS

Interesting that comments suggest that even though Trump is undesirable company he should still be invited to the wedding because he represents the American people. By that standard Kim Jong Un should be invited because he represents the North Korean people.

Posted on 1/18/18 | 6:34 PM CET

BillS

Interesting that comments suggest that even though Trump is undesirable company he should still be invited to the wedding because he represents the American people. By that standard Putin should be invited because he represents the Russian people.